The BBC's decision to limit access to its written archives last year means some researchers' work has been made "impossible", campaigners have said. The reading room of the corporation's Written ...

The BBC's 94-year history of broadcasting means it has a wealth of old material in its archives. The vast majority of this is stored in the BBC Archive. Now, a huge chunk of that vintage television ...

A special week of Witness History programmes on the BBC World Service will draw entirely on the BBC’s vast archive, with a ...

The BBC, the BFI (British Film Institute), Channel 4 and the Open University set up the Creative Archive Licence Group to make their archive content available for download under the terms of the ...

The platform, powered by MAM software specialist VIDA Content OS, allows easy access to over 57,000 programs from the BBC archive When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

BBC News Interactive has just released nearly 80 news reports from its archives. The bulletins, covering iconic events of the past 50 years, include the fall of the Berlin Wall, crowds ejecting ...

There comes a point in everybody’s life when things that they were a part of are presented as history, and for the 8-bit ...

The massive library of Beatles tomes will grow by one more volume this fall with the addition of Kevin Howlett's The Beatles: The BBC Archives, a definitive history of the Fab Four's appearances on ...

The BBC is making its archive more accessible than ever before, launching a new Programme Index tool with a searchable index of nearly 100 years of BBC TV and radio broadcasts. “Programme Index, like ...

BBC Worldwide and EMI Music have struck a deal allowing access to each other’s material. And it’s the public’s first crack at pop and rock content that’s been locked away for decades. BBC Worldwide ...